>>Mainframes aren't just about capacity. Mainframes are about reliability.
Ditto for Midrange systems. I have a huge code base that powers an almost billion dollar/yr company. Some of this code was written and compiled in 1989/1990.
In the late 90's we went from 32bit to 64bit. The OS took the compiled object (.exe in Windows world) and converted it from 32bit to 64bit automatically. As major changes have occurred, the object has automatically (by the upgrade) been updated to make better use of the new system.
The fact is that I have code that was compiled in the 1989/1990 that I haven't had to touch and continues to run on the latest OS/hardware. This is true of all code and all databases that I run on this system. It just works.
On Windows / *nix this just isn't the case. In Vista can I run the QBASIC compiled program I purchased to drive my highway sign? No, I lost that functionality in NT 4.0 days when the hardware layer became abstract and I couldn't directly access the fiber serial card (no drivers exist for this - didn't need them in DOS.)
I get to work on many various types of systems including ESX clusters with SANS, Windows, various flavors of *nix, embedded systems, etc. My favorite is the IBM business model line of systems. I program it to do something, and it just works forever.
For those that don't play SL, think if it this way;
The OS is Second Life. This guy wrote a program, his sex gen stuff.
Someone made a copy of the program and is giving it away/selling it.
That's a pretty accurate statement of what happened. SL is very much like an OS in this context, and the sex gen stuff requires scripting, graphic design, et al.
Taken the other way, since Microsoft's OS is virtual property, why would they sue someone who pirates it?
All these threads that virtual theft isn't theft may hold true in most other MMO's, but not in this one.
I just purchased a 3rd T-Mobile line for my "home phone" line, as I have no wired line. When the baby sitter comes over, my wife and I need some way of getting a-hold of her.
The extra line is $10/mo and shares our 1000 minutes. However the phone should be used just for mobile to mobile, which are unlimited or mostly nights and weekends, again unlimited. We use about 400 of the 1000 any given month so she'd have to talk a lot to fill up our plan.
I do have WIFI, but why would I want to spend an additional $10/mo to go to this service? It'd only have been on this new line since my other phone's are not supported (though the SDA has WIFI, just no UMA.)
I thought about this, but it just doesn't make any sense. Not for me at least.
Plus, WIFI's going to kill the battery. WIFI takes much more battery than cellular does. WIFI was not designed to be battery friendly.
About 6 months ago I purchased a track ball (part# 904369-0403) to try and reduce stress on my wrists. A co-worker purchased the device being reviewed. After several months, neither of us could get use to either device. In fact, we both felt worse trying to use the new devices. He let other co-workers try the device, but none of us really liked it.
I imagine if you have serious problems with your wrists, these type of devices could help as you are using different muscles. Our problems were just sore wrists. I have found that learning the keyboard shortcuts have helped me out much more. If I can do WIN-key E and not right click on START, then Explorer and other such things, my wrists are fine at the end of the day. WIN-key E and then c:\program files\.... versus navigating with the mouse.. It's more keystrokes, but those are much easier than using the mouse all day.
I have a T-Mobile SDA. It has WIFI. I did not purchase the T-Mobile data plan. I can get unlimited free Internet as long as there is an available WIFI connection around. This includes work & home, where I spend most of my time. I can listen to streaming music on my phone w/out paying data charges.
Does China get spam? Perhaps someone needs to employee one of these spam kings to send political mass mailings in Chinese to try and get them to overthrow the government?
I previously spent many hours a week fighting spam for our company. We used multiple products which had to be constantly tuned to level out the spam detection with the false positives.
I quit fighting a few months ago. I hired someone else to fight spam for me. It is costing me less, has a very good detection percentage, and almost no false positives. IP Whitelists work good for B2B domains you are in constant contact with.
I switched to MessageLabs. There are others out there. Surfcontrol, PostINI to name a few. But I am extremely pleased with MessageLabs. I suggest if your fighting spam that you check them out. They can do companies of a few e-mail boxes up to the many thousands. They have many millions of e-mail accounts they filter for.
Would I pay for Goodmail to deliver my e-mail? 99% of the time, no. But I have mailing lists. I have been on AOL's blocklist while on their whitelist due to some idiot clicking this is SPAM because he setup his e-mail account to forward all his e-mail to his AOL account. AOL won't help. If it was under $1 per e-mail, it might cost less than the time invested to get these mailing lists out. I get paid $4-$15 a week from the member so they can receive this weekly mailing. Perhaps an AOL/Goodmail surcharge is appropriate for these folks.
*Considering* open source software often generates substation savings from Microsoft. How many articles on/. have we seen where some government or huge company says they are switching away from Microsoft, only to have Microsoft come back with huge savings?
It's a great negotiating advantage to be "forced" to consider open source.
>>you'll be able to run any software you want on it without having to go through Apple, unlike the iPhone.
That is unless you are with T-Mobile which is locking down their phone's so you can't add software -- per another/. post.
I have the HTC Tornado. First 1 replaced due to bad firmware. Replacement had same issue, and a bad joystick. 3rd one has same issue, but works otherwise. I just gave up, they aren't going to fix the firmware. There are a lot of bugs in the Tornado.
But the pro's far outweigh the cons. I have Google Maps, Skype, IE & Opera w/802.11b so free Internet, Outlook w/OTA AS, and 2GB of memory for MP3's and videos. The device can go to 4GB as long as it's the old MiniSD standard, not the new one.
I'm awaiting the UMPC market to take off. I want Vista tablet edition on my cell phone, 64GB of SSD, Outlook 2007 pro, Bluetooth keyboard/mouse et al. The only vendor that has UMPC and Cellular combined wants $2000US. That will come down.
We have hundreds of Vista licenses purchase, however we are installing XP with the backrev agreement. So do you count us a Vista customers considering we have none in production, or do you not even though we own hundreds?
Microsoft counts us. But that doesn't help the memory manufactures.
I've done the standard stuff. I have CAT5/CAT6 throughout the house both for a digital phone line as well as network, I have 7.1 wiring in the living room built into the walls, I prewired sensor lines at the doors and windows which all route back to the utility room, have wiring for CCTV and alarm system back to same room. Here are some other things to check out;
Ethernet stove with built in fridge and Ethernet/phone connectivity; http://www.tmio.com/products/ So you can set your dinner in the stove and keep it cold all day, then have it automatically cook and be done right when you get home. If you are late, you can remotely tell the stove to start a bit later. If you don't do this, the stove will refrigerate your food after cooking to keep it from going bad.
There are other vendors of this type of stove. Best Buy had one for $1600 a while back.
You probably don't need an Ethernet sprinkler system. Of course everyone knows about the Ethernet Fridges and X10 light controllers. A video conferencing system for answering the door from throughout your home or even when at work would be nice. I love being able to check my system from my cell phone to make sure the dogs are fine. They like to bark at traffic out the windows.
Windows Mobile can already run 3rd party apps such as VNC, Citrix, RDC (Terminal services), various media players, connect to blue tooth keyboards and mice, etc.
I already use my device to watch my IP-CCTV system, VNC into my computer, run Outlook including over the air (Cellular/WIFI) active sync to get calendar/contact/e-mail updates. I have movies and music on the 2GB storage card which is great for waiting in line. Just hit the resume button and I am back where I left off in my movie.
My phone already is my "next" computer. I can do so much more with it than I could my Commodore 64.
In a nut shell, it'd drop the connections of infected hosts.
Long term, if this gets into all routers/switches/AP's, then when someone with a zombie plugs into the network, they will not create as much garbage traffic as they do today.
I purchased an AT&T (old AT&T) cell phone right when they did their system migration. As I recall, they were down for about 3 weeks. On-hold times averaged 8 hours for first level.
Name me one piece of software that is as complex as this which has no bugs in it.
T-Mobile recently did an upgrade which took many months. There were bugs in this system too, but they worked in quite the opposite direction. Did you here about those?
>>Flash is a lot more standard than AVI, WMV, RM, DIVX, MOV and OGG. So what should we be using instead? I've only ever had problems playing Flash content under PPC versions of Linux. Windows, Macs, i86 Linux it's fine. What the hell are you running?
My phone runs Windows, but it can't play Flash. There is no Flash plug in for my Windows phone either. I can play Microsoft streaming media just fine, though. ASF, WMF, that kind of thing.
You might look at Kerio KMS. It has the Calendar portion of Exchange. I can share my calendar and grant varied authorities. It also has shared contacts, tasks, and notes. At a fraction of Exchange's price.
That's what we use. It even supports ActiveSync OTA with cell phones. It doesn't do everything that Exchange does, but for what it costs it's awesome. The price for this with antivirus was 1/7th what Microsoft wanted for Exchange, not taking into the account of the loss of Outlook licenses. But we already had that with Office.
It works with Mac and other OSes, and the webmail piece is very nice.
>>Picture elements on an LCD screen are actually comprised of individual horizontally-oriented red, green and blue sub-pixels. For instance, an LCD screen that has a display resolution of 800x600 pixels actually has 2400x600 individual sub-pixels. The human eye is not capable of differentiating colors on such a small scale, so a combination of these three primary colors can emulate any intermediate color. Sub-pixel font rendering takes advantage of this by antialiasing at the sub-pixel level instead of at the pixel level.
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Sorry, that's exactly what we were doing in the old days. Granted, we didn't have the same resolution back then. We used a TV's CRT. The CRT has Red, Green, and Blue to make up a Pixel. Let's explain in the simplest of ways. You take a graphic screen. You draw onto it the words "Hello World" in a large pitch. You zoom in onto the text. You take the letter H and notice that you have a white pixel next to a black pixel. You modify the RGB of the border pixels from Black to other RGB values. Which values depends on the background color. By doing this, you are manipulating the RGB sub-pixels and fooling the eye into seeing a much clearer image. I did this in the old Commodore 64 days. Not with 80 column text, mind you, but with graphics mode.
I'm using cleartype as I type this in.
While what I was doing was not done in real-time as is done with cleartype, it's the same concept. It's a very basic concept.
Almost all of my software I use inhouse on our LAN is web based. Mimesweeper is web based. WSUS 2.0 is web based, though for some reason 3.0 is not. My e-mail filtering solution is web based. My web filtering solution is web based. The list continues.
This software runs on my LAN at Gigabit speed. But it is web based. I can VPN in and use my web browser to run this software at home. While some of these solutions transition from Win32 to web based are great, others use Java and are thus very slow compared to the Win32 version. However, the ability to access this information from home without installing a client is great.
TS, Tarantella, Citrix allows you to take any Win32 based application and make it "web based." You can use Citrix's Internet license and put any Win32 program as a Web program. You can host this inside various Web thin clients, such as the ActiveX/Java client.
So I think moving to clients from Win32 to Internet is a good thing, as long as it is done right. Don't use Java. Google Maps is an excellent example of how well an interface can be written. Just because it's web based, doesn't mean I have to use it over a slow Internet link. It can all be loopback.
Microsoft may have a patent on ClearType, but they didn't invent it. We did the same thing in the Commodore 64 days with regards to fonts in graphics. I clearly recall zooming in on text and seeing different colors in the transition from text to background. I've spent many hundred hours doing graphic arts on the Commodore 64 and have been published.
I guess prior art doesn't apply to patents anymore?
"Sub-pixel font rendering with Free&Clear - Microsoft says they invented their "ClearType" technology, but I quickly and independently "invented" the same thing . . . as had others who came years before. It is very cool, but rather obvious. "
>>This is just an advertisement manifesting as news!
I get about 5 CMP magazines in the mail each week. To me, an advertisement is the page that says "advertisement" on it, and a news article is an advertisement that is written in the style of an article. That's all that's in these trade mags anyway, it's all advertising.
>>I've tried Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail Beta. They were actually my first email accounts. Somebody sent me a gmail invite a few years ago and I've never looked back. The yahoo interface is AWFUL.
To each his own. I prefer YaHoo. I like have many notes, calendar items & reminders, and many things I can't do with Google. Yes, I am aware there is a calendar and Docs. But the workflow/features just don't do what I need.
>>"From their point of view, they need to have the software in a known state so that they can troubleshoot the hardware."
>>Well then, what they need to do is provide a live CD that can test the hardware no matter what state the >>software is currently in. Once they know the hardware is good, they can give software support or not based on >>what is on the hardware.
They have that on their servers. All my proliants have a boot partition that is the troubleshooting CD.
I wonder why they can't do that with their PCs? In the Windows 2000 days you could load this up on Windows 2000 PRO. They did away with that with XP/2003.
I have a bluetooth headset with remote controls on it. How about another bluetooth device for remote control? Make the phone extremely small, stream the music through bluetooth, and put all the buttons on my headset. Lord knows I love having the exact same button combination for switching a call back to the headset as for hanging up on my H500.
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>>Mainframes aren't just about capacity. Mainframes are about reliability.
Ditto for Midrange systems. I have a huge code base that powers an almost billion dollar/yr company. Some of this code was written and compiled in 1989/1990.
In the late 90's we went from 32bit to 64bit. The OS took the compiled object (.exe in Windows world) and converted it from 32bit to 64bit automatically. As major changes have occurred, the object has automatically (by the upgrade) been updated to make better use of the new system.
The fact is that I have code that was compiled in the 1989/1990 that I haven't had to touch and continues to run on the latest OS/hardware. This is true of all code and all databases that I run on this system. It just works.
On Windows / *nix this just isn't the case. In Vista can I run the QBASIC compiled program I purchased to drive my highway sign? No, I lost that functionality in NT 4.0 days when the hardware layer became abstract and I couldn't directly access the fiber serial card (no drivers exist for this - didn't need them in DOS.)
I get to work on many various types of systems including ESX clusters with SANS, Windows, various flavors of *nix, embedded systems, etc. My favorite is the IBM business model line of systems. I program it to do something, and it just works forever.
For those that don't play SL, think if it this way;
The OS is Second Life. This guy wrote a program, his sex gen stuff.
Someone made a copy of the program and is giving it away/selling it.
That's a pretty accurate statement of what happened. SL is very much like an OS in this context, and the sex gen stuff requires scripting, graphic design, et al.
Taken the other way, since Microsoft's OS is virtual property, why would they sue someone who pirates it?
All these threads that virtual theft isn't theft may hold true in most other MMO's, but not in this one.
I just purchased a 3rd T-Mobile line for my "home phone" line, as I have no wired line. When the baby sitter comes over, my wife and I need some way of getting a-hold of her.
The extra line is $10/mo and shares our 1000 minutes. However the phone should be used just for mobile to mobile, which are unlimited or mostly nights and weekends, again unlimited. We use about 400 of the 1000 any given month so she'd have to talk a lot to fill up our plan.
I do have WIFI, but why would I want to spend an additional $10/mo to go to this service? It'd only have been on this new line since my other phone's are not supported (though the SDA has WIFI, just no UMA.)
I thought about this, but it just doesn't make any sense. Not for me at least.
Plus, WIFI's going to kill the battery. WIFI takes much more battery than cellular does. WIFI was not designed to be battery friendly.
About 6 months ago I purchased a track ball (part# 904369-0403) to try and reduce stress on my wrists. A co-worker purchased the device being reviewed. After several months, neither of us could get use to either device. In fact, we both felt worse trying to use the new devices. He let other co-workers try the device, but none of us really liked it.
I imagine if you have serious problems with your wrists, these type of devices could help as you are using different muscles. Our problems were just sore wrists. I have found that learning the keyboard shortcuts have helped me out much more. If I can do WIN-key E and not right click on START, then Explorer and other such things, my wrists are fine at the end of the day. WIN-key E and then c:\program files\.... versus navigating with the mouse.. It's more keystrokes, but those are much easier than using the mouse all day.
I have a T-Mobile SDA. It has WIFI. I did not purchase the T-Mobile data plan. I can get unlimited free Internet as long as there is an available WIFI connection around. This includes work & home, where I spend most of my time. I can listen to streaming music on my phone w/out paying data charges.
Does China get spam? Perhaps someone needs to employee one of these spam kings to send political mass mailings in Chinese to try and get them to overthrow the government?
I previously spent many hours a week fighting spam for our company. We used multiple products which had to be constantly tuned to level out the spam detection with the false positives.
I quit fighting a few months ago. I hired someone else to fight spam for me. It is costing me less, has a very good detection percentage, and almost no false positives. IP Whitelists work good for B2B domains you are in constant contact with.
I switched to MessageLabs. There are others out there. Surfcontrol, PostINI to name a few. But I am extremely pleased with MessageLabs. I suggest if your fighting spam that you check them out. They can do companies of a few e-mail boxes up to the many thousands. They have many millions of e-mail accounts they filter for.
Would I pay for Goodmail to deliver my e-mail? 99% of the time, no. But I have mailing lists. I have been on AOL's blocklist while on their whitelist due to some idiot clicking this is SPAM because he setup his e-mail account to forward all his e-mail to his AOL account. AOL won't help. If it was under $1 per e-mail, it might cost less than the time invested to get these mailing lists out. I get paid $4-$15 a week from the member so they can receive this weekly mailing. Perhaps an AOL/Goodmail surcharge is appropriate for these folks.
*Considering* open source software often generates substation savings from Microsoft. How many articles on /. have we seen where some government or huge company says they are switching away from Microsoft, only to have Microsoft come back with huge savings?
It's a great negotiating advantage to be "forced" to consider open source.
>>you'll be able to run any software you want on it without having to go through Apple, unlike the iPhone.
/. post.
That is unless you are with T-Mobile which is locking down their phone's so you can't add software -- per another
I have the HTC Tornado. First 1 replaced due to bad firmware. Replacement had same issue, and a bad joystick. 3rd one has same issue, but works otherwise. I just gave up, they aren't going to fix the firmware. There are a lot of bugs in the Tornado.
But the pro's far outweigh the cons. I have Google Maps, Skype, IE & Opera w/802.11b so free Internet, Outlook w/OTA AS, and 2GB of memory for MP3's and videos. The device can go to 4GB as long as it's the old MiniSD standard, not the new one.
I'm awaiting the UMPC market to take off. I want Vista tablet edition on my cell phone, 64GB of SSD, Outlook 2007 pro, Bluetooth keyboard/mouse et al. The only vendor that has UMPC and Cellular combined wants $2000US. That will come down.
We have hundreds of Vista licenses purchase, however we are installing XP with the backrev agreement. So do you count us a Vista customers considering we have none in production, or do you not even though we own hundreds?
Microsoft counts us. But that doesn't help the memory manufactures.
I've done the standard stuff. I have CAT5/CAT6 throughout the house both for a digital phone line as well as network, I have 7.1 wiring in the living room built into the walls, I prewired sensor lines at the doors and windows which all route back to the utility room, have wiring for CCTV and alarm system back to same room. Here are some other things to check out;
Ethernet Thermostat;
http://www.proliphix.com/NT-Basic.aspx
Control and monitor your homes temperature remotely. Multiple sensors are an option.
Ethernet stove with built in fridge and Ethernet/phone connectivity;
http://www.tmio.com/products/
So you can set your dinner in the stove and keep it cold all day, then have it automatically cook and be done right when you get home. If you are late, you can remotely tell the stove to start a bit later. If you don't do this, the stove will refrigerate your food after cooking to keep it from going bad.
There are other vendors of this type of stove. Best Buy had one for $1600 a while back.
You probably don't need an Ethernet sprinkler system. Of course everyone knows about the Ethernet Fridges and X10 light controllers. A video conferencing system for answering the door from throughout your home or even when at work would be nice. I love being able to check my system from my cell phone to make sure the dogs are fine. They like to bark at traffic out the windows.
>>However I believe that spamming should not be a crime. In the grand scheme of things... robbing someone is much worse.
I pay thousands of dollars a year to block his (and others) spam. How is that not theft?
Windows Mobile can already run 3rd party apps such as VNC, Citrix, RDC (Terminal services), various media players, connect to blue tooth keyboards and mice, etc.
I already use my device to watch my IP-CCTV system, VNC into my computer, run Outlook including over the air (Cellular/WIFI) active sync to get calendar/contact/e-mail updates. I have movies and music on the 2GB storage card which is great for waiting in line. Just hit the resume button and I am back where I left off in my movie.
My phone already is my "next" computer. I can do so much more with it than I could my Commodore 64.
Cisco self-defending network is goaled to just that;
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http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=ht
In a nut shell, it'd drop the connections of infected hosts.
Long term, if this gets into all routers/switches/AP's, then when someone with a zombie plugs into the network, they will not create as much garbage traffic as they do today.
In full disclosure, I own Cisco stock.
I purchased an AT&T (old AT&T) cell phone right when they did their system migration. As I recall, they were down for about 3 weeks. On-hold times averaged 8 hours for first level.
Name me one piece of software that is as complex as this which has no bugs in it.
T-Mobile recently did an upgrade which took many months. There were bugs in this system too, but they worked in quite the opposite direction. Did you here about those?
I have a Windows Mobile smart phone which I've installed Skype on. So even if they disabled voice, I could use VoIP over the data channel to talk.
>>Flash is a lot more standard than AVI, WMV, RM, DIVX, MOV and OGG. So what should we be using instead? I've only ever had problems playing Flash content under PPC versions of Linux. Windows, Macs, i86 Linux it's fine. What the hell are you running?
My phone runs Windows, but it can't play Flash. There is no Flash plug in for my Windows phone either. I can play Microsoft streaming media just fine, though. ASF, WMF, that kind of thing.
You might look at Kerio KMS. It has the Calendar portion of Exchange. I can share my calendar and grant varied authorities. It also has shared contacts, tasks, and notes. At a fraction of Exchange's price.
That's what we use. It even supports ActiveSync OTA with cell phones. It doesn't do everything that Exchange does, but for what it costs it's awesome. The price for this with antivirus was 1/7th what Microsoft wanted for Exchange, not taking into the account of the loss of Outlook licenses. But we already had that with Office.
It works with Mac and other OSes, and the webmail piece is very nice.
>>Picture elements on an LCD screen are actually comprised of individual horizontally-oriented red, green and blue sub-pixels. For instance, an LCD screen that has a display resolution of 800x600 pixels actually has 2400x600 individual sub-pixels. The human eye is not capable of differentiating colors on such a small scale, so a combination of these three primary colors can emulate any intermediate color. Sub-pixel font rendering takes advantage of this by antialiasing at the sub-pixel level instead of at the pixel level.
---
Sorry, that's exactly what we were doing in the old days. Granted, we didn't have the same resolution back then. We used a TV's CRT. The CRT has Red, Green, and Blue to make up a Pixel. Let's explain in the simplest of ways. You take a graphic screen. You draw onto it the words "Hello World" in a large pitch. You zoom in onto the text. You take the letter H and notice that you have a white pixel next to a black pixel. You modify the RGB of the border pixels from Black to other RGB values. Which values depends on the background color. By doing this, you are manipulating the RGB sub-pixels and fooling the eye into seeing a much clearer image. I did this in the old Commodore 64 days. Not with 80 column text, mind you, but with graphics mode.
I'm using cleartype as I type this in.
While what I was doing was not done in real-time as is done with cleartype, it's the same concept. It's a very basic concept.
We need some qualifications here.
Almost all of my software I use inhouse on our LAN is web based. Mimesweeper is web based. WSUS 2.0 is web based, though for some reason 3.0 is not. My e-mail filtering solution is web based. My web filtering solution is web based. The list continues.
This software runs on my LAN at Gigabit speed. But it is web based. I can VPN in and use my web browser to run this software at home. While some of these solutions transition from Win32 to web based are great, others use Java and are thus very slow compared to the Win32 version. However, the ability to access this information from home without installing a client is great.
TS, Tarantella, Citrix allows you to take any Win32 based application and make it "web based." You can use Citrix's Internet license and put any Win32 program as a Web program. You can host this inside various Web thin clients, such as the ActiveX/Java client.
So I think moving to clients from Win32 to Internet is a good thing, as long as it is done right. Don't use Java. Google Maps is an excellent example of how well an interface can be written. Just because it's web based, doesn't mean I have to use it over a slow Internet link. It can all be loopback.
Microsoft may have a patent on ClearType, but they didn't invent it. We did the same thing in the Commodore 64 days with regards to fonts in graphics. I clearly recall zooming in on text and seeing different colors in the transition from text to background. I've spent many hundred hours doing graphic arts on the Commodore 64 and have been published.
I guess prior art doesn't apply to patents anymore?
"Sub-pixel font rendering with Free&Clear - Microsoft says they invented their "ClearType" technology, but I quickly and independently "invented" the same thing . . . as had others who came years before. It is very cool, but rather obvious. "
http://www.grc.com/ct/cleartype.htm
>>This is just an advertisement manifesting as news!
I get about 5 CMP magazines in the mail each week. To me, an advertisement is the page that says "advertisement" on it, and a news article is an advertisement that is written in the style of an article. That's all that's in these trade mags anyway, it's all advertising.
>>I've tried Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail Beta. They were actually my first email accounts. Somebody sent me a gmail invite a few years ago and I've never looked back. The yahoo interface is AWFUL.
:P
To each his own. I prefer YaHoo. I like have many notes, calendar items & reminders, and many things I can't do with Google. Yes, I am aware there is a calendar and Docs. But the workflow/features just don't do what I need.
Plus I like Norton AV better than Sophos
>>"From their point of view, they need to have the software in a known state so that they can troubleshoot the hardware."
>>Well then, what they need to do is provide a live CD that can test the hardware no matter what state the
>>software is currently in. Once they know the hardware is good, they can give software support or not based on
>>what is on the hardware.
They have that on their servers. All my proliants have a boot partition that is the troubleshooting CD.
I wonder why they can't do that with their PCs? In the Windows 2000 days you could load this up on Windows 2000 PRO. They did away with that with XP/2003.
I have a bluetooth headset with remote controls on it. How about another bluetooth device for remote control? Make the phone extremely small, stream the music through bluetooth, and put all the buttons on my headset. Lord knows I love having the exact same button combination for switching a call back to the headset as for hanging up on my H500.